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Middlemarch

George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton, Rosemary Ashton

Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
880
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780141439549
Published Date:
30/1/2003
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 37mm
Weight:
596g
Category:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780141439549


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